Figures of speech (which you can find here) is a project done illuminations media for the Almeida Theater in which great actors read great speeches and it is absolutely fantastic.

It includes, amongst others, Ian McKellen reading Harvey Milk’s Hope Speech, Derek Jacobi reading Socrates’ I Go To Die, and Noma Dumezweni reading Margaret Sanger’s The Morality of Birth Control.

The actors are great, the speeches have stood the test of time and it is a great vessel to get familiar with them.